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Overview

Debra A. Bangasser is affiliated with Georgia State University in the United States, focusing primarily on neuroscience. Their research contributions include 42 publications in the field of neuroscience, with particular emphasis on behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in their work cover various aspects of stress responses and cortisol regulation, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, tryptophan and brain disorders, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, adipose tissue and metabolism, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms (2021), published in Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Considering Sex as a Biological Variable in Basic and Clinical Studies: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement (2021), published in Endocrine Reviews
  • Impact of Early Life Stress on Reward Circuit Function and Regulation (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Early life adversity promotes resilience to opioid addiction-related phenotypes in male rats and sex-specific transcriptional changes (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Sex Differences in Stress Response: Classical Mechanisms and Beyond (2023), published in Current Neuropharmacology

Frequent coauthors with whom Debra A. Bangasser has collaborated include:

  • Mathieu E. Wimmer
  • Evelyn Ordoñes Sanchez
  • Reza Karbalaei
  • Vinay Parikh
  • James L. Flowers

Their work has been published repeatedly in key venues such as Biological Psychiatry, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Psychopharmacology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Endocrine Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Sex differences in stress-related psychiatric disorders: neurobiological perspectives.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Rita J. Valentino

  • Sex Differences in Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor Signaling and Trafficking: Potential Role in Female Vulnerability to Stress-Related Psychopathology

    D A Bangasser;A Curtis;Beverly A.S. Reyes;T T Bethea

  • Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Amelia Cuarenta

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor-Induced Gene Expression Reveals Novel Actions of VGF in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

    Janet Alder;Smita Thakker-Varia;Debra A. Bangasser;May Kuroiwa

  • Chronic stress exacerbates tau pathology, neurodegeneration, and cognitive performance through a corticotropin-releasing factor receptor-dependent mechanism in a transgenic mouse model of tauopathy.

    Jenna C. Carroll;Michiyo Iba;Debbie A. Bangasser;Rita J. Valentino

  • Sex differences in the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system and its regulation by stress.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Kimberly R. Wiersielis;Sabina Khantsis

  • Trace Conditioning and the Hippocampus: The Importance of Contiguity

    Debra A. Bangasser;David E. Waxler;Jessica Santollo;Tracey J. Shors

  • Sex Differences in Molecular and Cellular Substrates of Stress

    Debra A. Bangasser;Rita J. Valentino

  • Sex differences in stress reactivity in arousal and attention systems

    Debra A. Bangasser;Samantha R. Eck;Evelyn Ordoñes Sanchez

  • Sex-specific mechanisms for responding to stress.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Brittany Wicks

  • The Neuropeptide VGF Produces Antidepressant-Like Behavioral Effects and Enhances Proliferation in the Hippocampus

    Smita Thakker-Varia;Jennifer Jernstedt Krol;Jacob Nettleton;Parizad M. Bilimoria

  • Sex differences in stress responses: a critical role for corticotropin-releasing factor.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Kimberly R. Wiersielis

  • Antidepressant-Like Effects of κ -Opioid Receptor Antagonists in Wistar Kyoto Rats

    Gregory V Carr;Debra A Bangasser;Thelma Bethea;Matthew Young

  • Sexual dimorphism in locus coeruleus dendritic morphology: a structural basis for sex differences in emotional arousal.

    Debra A. Bangasser;Xiaoyan Zhang;Veraaj Garachh;Emily Hanhauser

  • Sex differences in stress regulation of arousal and cognition

    Debra A. Bangasser;Samantha R. Eck;Alexander M. Telenson;Madeleine Salvatore

  • Increased vulnerability of the brain norepinephrine system of females to corticotropin-releasing factor overexpression

    D A Bangasser;B A S Reyes;D Piel;V Garachh

  • Sex differences in stress-related receptors: ″micro″ differences with ″macro″ implications for mood and anxiety disorders.

    Debra A Bangasser

  • The hippocampus is necessary for enhancements and impairments of learning following stress

    Debra A Bangasser;Tracey J Shors

  • Evidence for the role of corticotropin-releasing factor in major depressive disorder.

    R. Parrish Waters;Marion Rivalan;D. A. Bangasser;J. M. Deussing

  • Sex Differences in Psychiatric Disease: A Focus on the Glutamate System

    Megan M. Wickens;Debra A. Bangasser;Lisa A. Briand

  • Critical brain circuits at the intersection between stress and learning

    Debbie A. Bangasser;Tracey J. Shors

  • Sex differences in corticotropin-releasing factor signaling and trafficking

    D A Bangasser;A Curtis;B A S Reyes;T T Bethea

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita J. Valentino
Rita J. Valentino National Institute on Drug Abuse
Tracey J. Shors
Tracey J. Shors Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Vinay Parikh
Vinay Parikh Temple University
Stan B. Floresco
Stan B. Floresco University of British Columbia
Mark A. Geyer
Mark A. Geyer University of California, San Diego
Cara L. Wellman
Cara L. Wellman Indiana University
Christina Dalla
Christina Dalla National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Victoria B. Risbrough
Victoria B. Risbrough University of California, San Diego
Nadine J. Kaslow
Nadine J. Kaslow Emory University

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